ALL YEAR LONG CAL FIRE HAS BEEN PREPARING FOR A BUSY SUMMER ...CREWS HAVE BEEN TRAINING ON THE GROUND AND IN THE AIR...AND OF COURSE, THERE'S THE ADDITIONAL CHALLENGE OF FIGHTING THOSE FIRES DURING A DROUGHT. WHEN PEOPLE LIVING IN THE SAN LORENZO VALLEY SEE PICTURES LIKE THIS THEY REALIZE THAT ALL IT TAKES IS ONE CARELESS ACT AND THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS COULD BE UP IN SMOKE. It scares me because its so dry up here. we've just been so fortunate in the whole place not going up in smoke It's a drought. there's just too much dry firewood all around us. Anyting can touch it off. This is where we track all our resources that have been assigned out our area... ONE HUNDRED CAL FIRE CREWS HAVE JOINED THE FIGHT UP IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...WHILE THOSE CREWS ARE ON THE LINE ... ADDITIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ARE READY TO JOIN THE MIX IF WILDLAND FIRES BREAK OUT HERE. WITH ITS REMAINING RESOURCES CAL FIRES GOAL IS TO CONTAIN NINETY FIVE PERCENT OF WILDFIRES TO FIVE ACRES OR LESS. We still have critical attack resources available os any fire that we do have started we'll tryin and jump on those quickly and try to put as many resources as we can to keep it small. SEVENTY FIVE ADDITIONAL CAL FIRE CREWS ARE AT THE READY SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED. With water levels low Cal fire helitach units have to tap into other resources when battling wildland fires THE PLAN IS TO HAVE WHAT ARE CALLED 'BUOY WALLS' STRATEGICALLY IN PLACE WHERE HELITACk UNITS CAN DRAW WATER AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE AND GET BACK TO THE FIRE FIGHT. We have deployed what we call 'buoy walls' they're portable tanks annwhere from 500 to 2500 gallons . We carry 1500 gallonones on our helitender and we have 25-hundred buoy twalls stategiaclly located through the unit. ANOTHER KEY TO FIRE PROTECTION IS IF YOU SPOT ANYTHING SUSPICOUS OR FIRE ACTIVITY IMMEDIATELY CONTACT YOUR FIRE DEPARTMENT SO THEY CAN UNITS CAN GET RESOURCES TO PUT IT OUT QUICKLY. CAL FIRE IS ALSO KEEPING AN EYE OUT FOR MORE LIGHTNING STRIKES THAT ARE EXPECTED TO HIT UP AND DOWN THE STATE TOMORROW.#